i didn’t see anything malicious in what Beverly did. All he did was put two hands on him, not to push or really grab just seemed to put two hands on em. i don’t know what his intent really was, but it didn’t seem it was to hurt him. Westbrook is just short tempered.

Doesn’t have to be malicious, he heard the whistle blow and saw RW heading to the bench and still proceeded to go after the ball, Beverly is a joke and knows what he’s doing when trying to get under players skin.

That’s a foolish comment. Beverly accomplished exactly what he wanted to – get the other player to react emotionally, take him off his game. If you think that’s a “joke”, you don’t know much about the game.

You raised the level of foolishness with your ignorant comment. Do you really think it took Westbrook off his game? No…not even a little. If it did anything, it got the officials calling the game on Beverley tighter than normal. I realize you’re a Texas guy and are biased, but Beverley crossed the line of “hard nosed” a while ago, and now is just a borderline dirty player. He’s a liability on an otherwise extremely talented and dangerous team.

csiegert4 - Mar 11, 2014 at 11:58 PM

It’s called basketball acumen…I’ll wait while you look up the word then try to figure out exactly the context in which I mean as it pertains to basketball (or sports in general).

Same reason why everyone hates on KG, I don’t know why though, if it works in throwing the opposition off their game then why not? Except it seemed to backfire in this particular game Westbrook killed them after that.

Fact is the last time he did that EXACT same thing westbrook was out for the playoffs with a serious injury. If I was westbrook and I knew the pain I went through last years playoffs I would have tried to kick beverly’s ass too.

Beverly made his move several seconds after the whistle blew, which was worse than what he normally does. After the ball fouls are usually automatic technicals.

I really miss the 90s from this standpoint. If they loosened the rules on in-game shoving just a little – not what Gortat wants, but less suspensions – we’d get back some of the entertaining fights … and a player that wants to “embrace his role as an agitator” would know it comes with some risk.

Westbrook got angry because that was the same move that caused the injury and took him out for the playoffs last year. I’m pretty sure anyone would get upset if this clown tried the same thing again after the way it turned out last season

Wow. Went back and watched the video closer, in HD. If you look closely, Beverly not only tries to strip the ball, but kicks his R leg out – it looks liked he was aiming for Westbrook’s leg/knee. It’s hard to tell from this far away, but if true, that goes from a mild bitch move to a dangerous play that should be reviewed by the league. And I normally can’t stand Westbrook.

It wasn’t dirty at ALL though…he went after the ball on the sideline, so what? Sure it was supposed to be a play to get under Westbrook’s skin, and did, which shows a very big weakness with him. But getting under someone’s skin with a legal play, nothing wrong with that. Great basketball acumen from Beverly.

Yea I kind of thought that at first. But come on, If I caused you to miss the rest of the season, and the playoffs, plus a 1/3 of the following season, after doing something pretty silly, I would be a d*** to do it again.

Now its about RW’s health and money vs. Beverly’s headlines because he’s not getting any money, lets face it.

Who knows if RW’s knees are going Brandon ROYesque right now or a little down the road?

jimsjam33 - Mar 12, 2014 at 11:52 AM

Tonight , the Thunder exposed the Rockets as ” pretenders ” and not contenders . Why ? Because Beverly and Lin are not championship caliber point guards to compete in the West . Period end of story !

Beverly’s play that injured Westbrook last season was dirty. It was overly aggressive attempt to steal the ball while Westbrook was obviously going to call a timeout. It was a cheap shot. Someone needs to put that punk in his place.

ok Beverly is a punk…. but so is Westbrook. Always trying to mean mug his way to the line. if he could control himself he’d be the best PG in the game but he is a little punk. And Westbrook goes for steals when teams call timeout too so karma. #MIA3PEAT